Clare Selley

Clare retired from her role as a community palliative care specialist nurse in December 2020. She is married with four children and eight grandchildren. In 2009 she completed a Tropical Nursing Diploma in London and, keen to put her newly acquired knowledge to the test, set off to Southern India and to the chest diseases hospital for the destitute. It was there that she first met one of the doctors from Nepal. From there she spent four months living and working alongside her husband in a remote village on the edge of the cloud forest in Ecuador.

The first of her many visits to Nepal was in 2010. She has forged links and friendships with the staff of Hospice Nepal and Chitwan National Cancer hospital, as well as with many of the Nepalese people she has met on her travels. Over the last ten years she has been involved in teaching, mentoring and working alongside the nurses in various palliative care settings. She also supports their work and the comfort of their patients by sending out regular parcels of dressings and syringe driver parts.

and to the chest diseases hospital for the destitute. From there she spent four months living and working alongside her husband in a remote village on the edge of the cloud forest in Equador.

For the past eight years she has volunteered , working alongside the nurses, at Hospice Nepal and in the National Cancer hospitals in Chitwan. She has  forged links and friendships with the staff of Hospice Nepal and Chitwan National Cancer hospital. She visits annually and is involved in teaching, mentoring and working alongside the nurses in various palliative care settings. She also supports their work and the comfort of their patients by sending out regular parcels of dressings and syringe driver parts.